East Asia and the Pacific

The Cabinet reshuffle last week saw more female appointment holders take on greater responsibilities.

Papua New Guinea has three female MPs after Julie Soso won the Eastern Highlands Regional seat in the general election.

Ms Soso becomes PNG’s first woman MP from the Highlands Region and the second ever female governor.

North Malaita constituency has a new Member of Parliament (MP) who was unofficially declared last night.

She is Vika Lusibaea, the wife of former MP Jimmy Lusibaea.

The Ministry of Women is currently having consultations with government ministries in coordinating information gathering for the preparation of Fiji's 2^nd Follow up State CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)

A reshuffle of provincial-level leadership nationwide, which has seen more women leaders elected, has been concluded with Guo Jinlong elected as the Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the first plenary meeting of the 11th CPC Beijing Munici

In Pakistan, where instability, distrust, violence and political rivalries can impede interaction among political parties, women and young people — the majority of the population — often have difficulty making their voices heard.

Despite legislation designed to secure gender equality, women rarely make it beyond deputy positions in the Tajik government, and instead remain stuck in the lower ranks or hit a glass ceiling after reaching middle management.